In October of 1961, Anthony Zimmerhakl’s 25-foot-tall Indian sculpture was installed in Riverside Park. The Chamber of Commerce decided that the statue should not be called...
The costs of the ongoing opioid crisis are staggering. It is estimated the cost of the opioid crisis in the U.S. totals more than $1 trillion...
In May of 1969, one La Crosse church offered a special worship service at 1:30 in the morning, for local promgoers who might want to sleep...
Farming is a tough business. But perhaps never more so than right now. Just take a look at soybean farmers. Soybeans are big business in Wisconsin....
Some things should just be obvious. But they rarely are when it comes to politics. Things make sense to our elected officials, but not always to...
Twenty-seven years ago, in May of ’92, Texas billionaire Ross Perot had not yet announced as a third-party candidate for president. But a poll by Time...
Lincoln Neprud became a circuit judge 67 years ago, in 1952. Neprud was a Vernon County judge appointed by the governor to succeed Leonard Roraff as...
Even when the news is good, our politicians can’t celebrate together. The state of Wisconsin got some good news this week when it was learned that...
In 1974, more than 1000 young Safety Patrol members from Wisconsin schools took a bus trip to the Nation’s Capital, and Gettysburg. There were 8 busloads...
For many students, school is not just a place to learn, but also a place to be fed. In the La Crosse school district, as many...
In the summer of 1960, Republicans nominated Richard Nixon for president at the party convention in Chicago. It was just two weeks after Democrats met in...
In business, when there is a large amount of customer dissatisfaction, businesses either change their business practices, or go out of business. Can the same be...
In the summer of 2004, La Crosse was a host city to the ‘Grand Excursion,’ a river voyage involving six cruise boats, recreating a steamboat trip...
These days it seems people are taking selfies everywhere. Sometimes with unfortunate consequences. We have heard stories of people falling from cliffs while trying to snap...
This sure sounds familiar. Wisconsin’s job creation agency continues to have problems doing its job. A required audit of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation once again...
May 14th was a red letter day in the history of La Crosse’s old Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium. That was the day Elvis Presley performed in...
If the state of Wisconsin is going to employ someone, they ought to make sure they have something to do. But that isn’t the case with...
In 1984, one area town was trying to decide where to have a rock concert. The Sparta schools were asked to permit a concert on school...
There is a lot of money to be made, if Wisconsin would just legalize it. No, we’re not talking about marijuana, but sports betting. The Supreme...
In the spring of 1969, Viterbo College received a federal grant of $600,000 to buy St. Wenceslaus School and convert it into a training facility for...